Kyle Sandilands' history of offence

Georgia Waters

As the co-host of The Kyle and Jackie O Show on 2Day FM and a judge on television talent programs Australian Idol and Australia's Got Talent, Sandilands has repeatedly made headlines for controversial comments.

November 2011

Launches on-air attack on journalist Alison Stephensonafter she reported about the falling ratings of his television show A Night with the Stars, calling her a ''fat slag'' and vowing to ''hunt [her] down''.

April 2010

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On The Kyle and Jackie O Show on 2Day FM, Sandilands and Jackie O interviewed three of golfer Tiger Woods’s former mistresses, with Sandilands asking one of them in reference to the size of the star's genitals if he was a ‘‘massive donkey’’. When she responded with yes, he asked her: ''Were you surprised, [saying] 'Man, you're half Asian, half black, obviously the half black is what's going on downstairs'?''

Austereo released a statement that the comments ‘‘made in context’’ were not intended to be offensive.

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September 2009

On his radio show, Sandilands suggested Australian comedian Magda Szubanski, who was a spokeswoman for a weight-loss company, would lose more weight in a concentration camp. Szubanski is of Polish origin, a country where many of the worst Nazi concentration camps were located. Sandilands was temproarily suspended by the radio station, who released a statement saying the comments were unacceptable and they regretted any offence caused.

July 2009

A 14-year-old girl appeared on Sandilands' 2Day FM show, strapped to a lie detectorto be questioned by Sandilands, Jackie O and the girl's mother. After the girl revealed she was raped at the age of 12 in response to a question from her mother, Sandilands said: ''Right ... is that the only experience you’ve had?'' Public outrage followed and Sandilands was sacked from his job as a judge on Australian Idol by Channel Ten.

October 2006

As a judge on Australian Idol, Sandilands described contestant Bobby Flynn as a ''full mong''. The term "mong'' refers to mongoloids and has been used in the past as a label for people with Down Syndrome. Sandilands' manager said at the time the comment was taken out of context and was a ‘‘slang term’’ and not meant to refer to people with Down Syndrome.

A fortnight earlier he told contestant and eventual runner-up Jessica Mauboy she should ''lose the jelly belly'' if she wanted to succeed.